An OAS Without Empire

Posted on Feb 20, 2010

In a press conference before a meeting of Latin and Caribbean countries in Cancun, Mexico, Evo Morales proposed a new Organization of American States “without empire” that would remove Canada and the U.S. from the organization’s roster.

Commenting on several points of conflict with Canada and the U.S., including an inability to resolve the ouster of the president of Honduras and the creation of new U.S. military bases in Panama, Morales urged a new OAS free of “North American imperialism.”

Oddly enough, no English sources, as yet, appear to have latched on to this story, so the text below—from one of the hemisphere’s most respected newspapers, La Jornada—is in Spanish. —JCL